This day was rather long so I split it in to two chapters :)
Friday 6th December, 7:00am
Zosia was out for an early morning run around the lake that was behind their lodge. It was a rather large lake, maybe 8km in perimeter. She was only taking a slow jog because she didn't want to push it too hard after her illness so with her headphones in and her running shoes on, she was making a fairly good pace.
Jonny had a good stretch as he woke up, but it was only when he could reach his arms out that he realised that Jac wasn't besides him. He lifted his head up and she bathroom door was open and considering it was only just 7am, he decided to go and investigate. Finally, after searching the lodge, he found Jac swimming a length in the pool. He leant in the doorway as he watched her finish the length doing breaststroke and then turn around- her face was not amused.
"Jonny, go back to bed." Jac ordered as she swum to the side of the pool so that he couldn't see her bump- she was wearing a skimpy black bikini because she planned to be out of the pool by the time anyone else was up. She had her hair up in a tight, yet messy bun to prevent it from getting wet.
"No, I thought I might join you." Jonny smiled.
"Well you thought wrong." Jac stated.
"Fine." Jonny sighed before he left her to it. Jac finished the rest of that length and was about to take a break to catch her breath back when there was a massive splash in the water behind her. "Ooh this water's nice and warm!" Jonny announced as he surfaced and then shook the water out of his hair. He had quickly pulled on a pair of swimming trunks and then bombed into the pool.
"Jonny!" Jac laughed.
"What? I had to make an entrance didn't I?" Jonny joked. "So, is my little girl any good at swimming?" He queried as he joined Jac in the shallow end by the steps.
"I think she falls asleep when I swim, she doesn't really move until I get out." Jac replied.
"That'll be you rocking her to sleep." Jonny smiled as he reached forward to touch Jac's bare bump that he couldn't see in great detail through the water.
"Stop it, you're distracting me, I'm meant to be burning calories." Jac said as she pulled away from him so he couldn't touch her bump at all.
"How many lengths have you done?"
"16."
"Wow, impressive." Jonny raised his eyebrows.
"Shut up." Jac muttered as she began another length of the small pool.
"Yes mam." Jonny mock saluted.
Mr T rubbed his eyes before he sat up and checked the time. It was just past seven and he didn't feel very tired after they had had an early night the night before, though it was an exhausting night after what he and Mo did, both of them laid under the duvet now completely naked with their legs and arms entwined. He decided that it was probably best to go and get Jac's stool softeners sooner rather than later. He carefully slipped out of Mo's arms and began to get dressed, but a particularly creaky wardrobe door unfortunately woke Mo up.
"Hey, what you doing?" Mo asked sleepily as she stretched under the duvet.
"Just going to the pharmacy for Jac's- I mean, I..." Mr T trailed off awkwardly. He knew Jac wouldn't want the others knowing, but he had just began something that he couldn't not finish.
"Jac's what?" Mo queried. The gynaecologist paused whilst considering what he could say, but he decided that if he and Mo were going to have a good relationship, the truth would be the best.
"Stool softeners, but don't tell her I told you." Mr T replied.
"Stool softeners?" Mo smirked before she pulled the duvet over her face and had a little giggle to herself.
"It's not funny, she's got an anal fissure." Mr T said defensively.
"Pft, what the hell's that?" Mo smirked as she pulled the duvet down under her chin.
"It's a tear in her anal passage." Mr T replied.
"Haha! Anal! That's probably what caused it!" Mo joked.
"You're never like this in the mornings." Mr T stated confusedly to change the subject.
"Well something must've happened last night then." Mo said innocently.
Zosia had just had her shower after her run so she was getting changed in her and her dad's bedroom. It was becoming ever present in her mind that she had menstrual cramps returning- she had woken up in a little pain, but the run had helped with those. Seeing as her father was fast asleep -or so she thought- she laid down on her bed, on top of the duvet and began massaging her abdomen hoping that it would prevent the camps from getting any worse.
"Do you want me to fill your hot water bottle up?" Guy croaked which made Zosia jump. But she could only nod from the embarrassment, the thought of the source of heat on her abdomen did sound appealing. She watched her father get out of his bed in his pyjama shirt and shorts, and then he walked out of the room after grabbing Zosia's hot water bottle from the floor besides her bed. A few minutes later, he returned with it filled which she willingly took and then pressed it firmly on her lower abdomen. "Some gentle exercise might help." He suggested as he sat on the edge of his bed with a cup of tea.
"I've already been for a run." Zosia stated with her eyes closed as she waited for the heat to take effect.
"You could try swimming. Your mother always said swimming helped when she had period pains, but only if you're okay with tampons that is." Guy said awkwardly.
"No, Jac and Jonny are in the pool. I don't wanna disturb them." Zosia stated. She had seen the pair on her way in from her run.
"Well, what do you want for breakfast? Strawberry smoothie?" He asked.
"Um, yes please. But can you use the rest of the blueberries too?" Zosia replied.
"Sure." Guy replied happily. He patted Zosia on the shoulder before he left the room.
"Twenty lengths." Jonny announced happily. He had merely sat on the pool steps waiting for Jac to finish. "Now before we get out, I have-"
"Ow!" Jac moaned. Jonny had begun to pull Jac onto his lap, however straddling her legs around Jonny's waist had hurt her anal fissure, or tear, so she stopped and got back onto her own feet.
"Sorry, sorry. Come here." He said gently as he just pulled her onto his lap sideways and he wrapped one arm round her waist, whilst his other hand smoothed over Jac's bump under the water. "I've got something I'd like to chew over with you," he began.
"I told you, I'm not that kinda girl." Jac replied cheekily. "Anyway, we're meeting your sisters tomorrow." She stated.
"I know but um... Oh heck, Jac, let's move in together." Jonny blurted out.
"Why?" Jac queried like it was a stupid question.
"Well just think about it, this holiday is basically me and you living together for two weeks anyway, and I don't like sleeping in my shoebox of a flat, knowing you're all alone Jac. I want- I need, to be with you." He explained. "And just think, when our little girl is born and you've given birth, you're gonna need need me to change her nappies while you get some rest aren't you?" He smiled.
"Yeah but you're so... You dont... Jonny your flat is a pigsty and I can't live like that. I have a routine that I stick to and-"
"And you can still have that routine." Jonny stated as he continued to rub his hand over her bump underwater. "I can adapt, I can do whatever you want me to do." He said pleadingly. "Look when you're at home -and not pregnant-, you get up every morning at 6. You have a shower as soon as your out of bed, you get out, dry your hair, straighten your hair, get dressed, do your makeup, skip breakfast because eating in the mornings doesn't appeal to you so you have a coffee and then you go to work." Jonny explained. "You get home from work, some days you go to the gym, otherwise you put something more comfortable on like trackies and a hoodie, you tidy your flat a little, cook dinner or order a takeaway, watch TV, catch up on paper work and then go to bed. Jac I know you have a routine and I can change, I can have the same routine as you." He pleaded. "Although, I wouldn't straighten my hair. Or do my makeup." He added sheepishly which made Jac laugh a little. "So what d'ya say eh?"
"We'll see." Jac replied eventually.
"Yes or no Jac?" He pushed.
"I... I suppose so." Jac sighed.
"You hear that baby girl, I'm gonna be with you and mummy a lot more from now on." Jonny said softly to Jac's bump as he continued to stroke it- a gesture that Jac was allowing, only because it was almost like a massage and it relaxed her.
"But not if daddy keeps on speaking to you like this he won't." Jac mocked as she stroked her bump too.
"Oh, so you can talk to her, but I can't." Jonny moaned.
"I was being sarcastic, you weren't." Jac stated.
"But-"
"I need a wee." Jac interrupted as she stood up off of Jonny's lap onto the pool floor. "Actually, can you get my towel please?" Jac asked awkwardly. She didn't want to get out because her bump was humongous and in her opinion, she looked like a whale in just a bikini.
"Sure." Jonny replied. He got out of the pool, and held Jac's towel out for her. He wrapped it gently around her body once she was out and gave her a peck on the lips. "Could you get me a towel when you're done please? I was in a bit of a rush when I got changed for the pool." Jonny smirked. He didn't want to walk through the lodge on the carpet whilst he was dripping wet.
"Fine." Jac huffed before she left the poolside leaving Jonny along in his swimming trunks.
Neither Mo nor Mr T had a conference that day so they had both decided to visit a local spa for the day. After he had gotten back from the shops, they had packed a bag and gotten a taxi. By 10am, the pair were standing in complimentary white dressing gowns just outside the room where they were about to have a Swedish massage in a room for couples.
"You don't think Hansen will be doing it do you?" Mo joked quietly.
"Well if he was, he'd be massaging you, not me." Mr T replied. Then the door opened and a lady in her early twenties came out.
"If you'd like to come in please." She smiled. The pair walked into the room where there was two massage tables with two sheets. The room smelt of lavender and it was a nice temperature- not too warm but not cold at all. There was relaxing music in the background playing quietly. "I'll leave you alone to undress and get on the table lying face down, just pull the sheet over you and you can leave your dressing gowns on the side." She smiled before she shut the door.
"I'd better not have a bloke doing mine." Mr T joked as he undone the knot on his dressing gown.
"Why not? I'd rather have a woman do mine." Mo stated.
"Yeah but if I get a hard-on, it'll be less awkward with a woman touching me." Mr T stated and Mo smirked. "Here, I'll pull the sheet over you." He offered as he grabbed the sheet at the ready. He took the dressing gown off of Mo and then once she was laying on the table, he laid the thin white sheet over her back up to her neck.
"Thanks." Mo smiled as she rested her chin on her hand in front of her. Mr T got on his table too and then there was a knock at the door.
"Are you ready?" A voice called.
"Yes." Mr T replied and the door opened revealing two women. He mocked wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead because they weren't men which made Mo smile and the relaxing spa day began.
Jac and Jonny had just shared a shower after going in the pool but when they came out, there was a box on Jac's bedside table along with a note.
Jac, take one tablet, every other day just before you go to bed with a full glass of water and you should be able to empty your bowels without straining in the morning. If you need to, don't increase the dosage without speaking to me first.
Mr T.
She picked up the box of stool softeners, glanced at the ingredients before she out them in her bedside draw, away from prying eyes.
"You know this thing tomorrow," Jonny began with just a towel wrapped around his lower half. Jac was still in only a towel that just about met up with the other end after going around her bump.
"The meal with your sisters, yeah." Jac replied.
"I might just cancel it." Jonny said as he picked up his phone.
"No." Jac said sternly, "You're not backing out, do you really want your daughter to think you're a wimp?"
"No but-"
"Then gimme your phone." Jac ordered.
"What?"
"Give me your phone." Jac ordered slowly as he she held her hand out. Reluctantly, Jonny placed his phone in Jac's hand which she then put on top of her phone on the bed. She didn't trust him not to cancel it and then tell him some petty excuse like 'they're all ill'.
"Anyone would think you don't want me to meet your sisters." Jac stated. "I don't have to go if-"
"No, no no no, it's not you I promise." Jonny said quickly. "It's just I haven't seen them in so long, I might not even recognise them." He admitted. "Let alone know what they're like."
"Well you'll get to know them tomorrow." Jac stated as she began to get out a clean set of clothes.
"Ah, so you do listen to me." Guy said smugly as Zosia stopped swimming a length in the pool to look up and see her father leaning in the doorway. She pulled her black bikini top up a little where it had fallen down whilst she had swum.
"Shut up." She muttered.
"Listen, how about tonight, me and you go to the funfair along the beach?" He suggested.
"And why would I want to do that?" Zosia raised an eyebrow.
"Because you went there when you were about ten, I think. Me, you and your mum went there. I thought you'd like to go on a few rides, maybe get some dinner along the sea front." He explained.
"I didn't think I'd been to Scotland before now." Zosia said confusedly as she rested her arms on the side of the pool.
"Well it was a long time ago, it was only for a few days while I had a break from work but, I'm sure you'll remember something once you see it."
"Okay, what time?" She asked.
"About 6?"
"Okay, six." She confirmed. Guy smiled before he left Zosia to get on with the gentle exercise which, annoyingly had relieved her of her period pains. She wasn't going to admit that because then her father would demand an apology for being wrong.
Thanks for reading, there's more Zosia and Guy in the next chapter. Please review x
